In performances and videos, I combine bodies with manufactured objects to investigate issues around desire and power in relation to gender performativity, sexual politics and consumerist identity. Absurdity is used to destabilise societally constructed rules about how to behave as a woman, worker and consumer.

The work usually features objects or clothes that reference different forms of labour, particularly domestic work, customer service roles and white-collar jobs. I combine these with actions that signify sexual power play, such as submissive or dominant poses, and by implying fetishistic relationships to the chosen objects. In doing this, I hope to highlight gendered power dynamics within these forms of work, and to breakdown learned compartmentalism between the erotic and mundane.

I often appropriate gestures and poses from sources that present bodies as consumable spectacles, whether from advertisements, pornography, the history of art, product demonstrations, etiquette classes or stock photos. This is partly in attempt to reclaim them, and partly to ridicule them. I hope to emphasise the ways in which (young, cis) female bodies are often the landscape on which desire for commodities are constructed, and to consider how this affects identity construction.

My aim is for viewers to experience both amusement at the euphemistic nature of the work, and discomfort at the elements associated with voyeurism and objectification.